McLain v. Short
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Pulton Circuit Court; J. B. Baker, Judge; It having been determined by the court trying the case that the only grounds of objection to appellant to be appointed guardian was tuberculosis and the evidence having utterly failed to sustain that issue, and appellant being competent and of blood kin to tbe orphans and appellee being of no kin but a stranger by blood, the court erred in refusing to appoint appellant guardian of the orphans. .18 Ark. 600; 22 Id. 368; 92…
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Appeal from Pulton Circuit Court; J. B. Baker, Judge; It having been determined by the court trying the case that the only grounds of objection to appellant to be appointed guardian was tuberculosis and the evidence having utterly failed to sustain that issue, and appellant being competent and of blood kin to tbe orphans and appellee being of no kin but a stranger by blood, the court erred in refusing to appoint appellant guardian of the orphans. .18 Ark. 600; 22 Id. 368; 92 Iowa 202; Woerner on Guardianship, § 32; 10 Sm. & M. (Miss.), 624; Hopkins, Chy., 226; 44 Ga. 485; 63 Mich. 319; 14 Id.…
1Opinion of the CourtHumphreys, J.
On the 17th day of June, 1918, appellant, the paternal grandfather of William Custer McLain, six years of age, and James Luster McLain, four years of age, filed a petition in the probate court of Fulton County for appointment as guardian of their persons and property. Letters of guardianship were issued to him in vacation, by the clerk, and he qualified as guardian.
At the August, 1918, term of said court, a remonstrance against the confirmation of the appointment of appellant as guardian of said minors, which remonstrance had been filed on July 12, 1918, by Hilda Brewington, the maternal…
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